crushed
adjective
- pressed, broken, or flattened by force
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kɹʌʃt/
adj
- Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
- Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated.
“We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident.”
“[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.”
- Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.
“Her top was of black crushed velvet.”
verb
- simple past and past participle of crush